The Essential Phone will get two years of Android software updates

The Essential Phone is nearing shipment, and today company founder Andy Rubin published a blog post clearly meant to make customers feel confident with buying into a completely new and unproven electronics brand. He laid out Essential’s principles and pledges, which include providing the $700 phone with two years of Android software updates and three of security patches. That’s on par with Google’s plans for the Pixel line. Rubin makes no mention of how quickly those will come